International Comparison Of Higher Education Finance And China's Reform Ideas

The world has entered the era of knowledge-based economy, and vigorously developthe higher education into States to enhance the comprehensive national strength has become aimportant measure. However, with the expansion of the scale of higher education, nationalhigher education is facing great financial difficulties. Therefore, countries in the world arereforming of their financial allocation way and the funds raises and financial supervision toadapt to the needs of development of higher education. China is a populous developingcountries, and with very limited financial resources, but higher education is at the stage ofrapid development, so higher education faces many financial difficulties. study theinternational financial reform of higher education experience, and find a financial system ofhigher education to suited to China's national conditions is the author 's goals.This article will propose reform ideas echo the condition of our country through analysiscomparative higher education finance reform measures abroad . From abroad situation, thehigher education financial allocation way more and more takes the achievements factor, thefunding will be based on efficiency in the use of funds, this will largely save money andimprove efficiency. But the old pattern of the funding in our country(Integrated Fixed +special grants ) has already been unsuitable for higher education 's develop.and reform it isvery nessarily. In the funds raises, countries in the world are expanding channels, broadensources. And the mode of financing higher education in our country is relatively simple, inaddition to state appropriations and tuition income, we also can accept donations, thedevelopment of lotteries, increased school projects, the use of the financial means etc. tostrong funding. In the cost of compensation, our colleges and universities have been raisingtuition standards to the limit, many impoverished families already incapably paid the soaringschool expense. To ensure equitable access to education, we must improve our studentfinancial assistance and loans system. Currently, the States more and more emphasize thefinancial assessment and supervision system of higher education and have established a morecomprehensive system. Our assessment and supervision system is inadequate, or it is not aneffective mechanism. It is therefore necessary to draw on foreign experience, establishspecial education assessment and supervision bodies to ensure that our higher educationhealth, stability and rapid development. Of course, the economic and cultural backgrounds of the States are divers and thesituations of the States are different for higher education, so financial and fiscal reforms ofhigher education should also be different ways. But look at our financial situation of highereducation, reform is inevitable, at the same time abroad many experiences also is worthstudying. How to improve our financial situation of higher education and promote thedevelopment of China's higher education will be a long-term issue to research.